MCPH provides comprehensive evaluation services (planning, development, and implementation) to Boys to Men’s Reducing Sexism and Violence Program (RSVP), a student-based training-the-trainers violence prevention project. The RSVP and its program evaluation are funded by the Bingham Program. more...
 

The Maine CDC received funding for “Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW)” as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The Maine Center for Public Health assisted Maine  CDC put together to applications to win these awards, and earned the contract to evaluate the CPPW projects. more...
 

MCPH provides comprehensive evaluation to the Maine CDC's five-year grant to address asthma in Maine. The purpose of the grant is to address the issues surrounding asthma in the state of Maine, and provide leadership and coordination for asthma prevention and intervention activities statewide. MCPH will conduct and develop evaluation plans, tools, and systems individual program components as well as for the overall grant program.  more...

Maine Oral Health Program

MCPH provides comprehensive evaluation to the Maine CDC's five-year grant to address oral disese prevention. The purpose of the grant is to strengthen and expand Maine's oral disease prevention efforts in schools and communities across Maine. MCPH will develop evaluation plans, tools, and systems for each intervention in the grant as well as for the overall grant program. more...

The Maine Worker Compensation Division funds the ME FIRST Program – a healthy lifestyle program for state employees.  The Program is run by the Maine Wellness Program of MaineGeneral.  The Maine Center for Public Health was recently contracted to evaluate the ME FIRST Program.  Preliminary results from the first year of the program show remarkable success (average weight loss: 26 pounds). A more rigorous design is in place to evaluate the third cohort of ME FIRST participants, who will begin September 2010, while continued evaluation of the first and second cohort will continue. more...
 

Penobscot Community Health Care

The Maine Center for Public Health works with PCHC's Capehart Community Clinic to provide evaluation of its co-located, integrated primary care and behavioral health services for low income and (peri)homeless individuals in Bangor. This project is funded by MeHAF and builds upon the lessons learned from our previous work together on a RWJF-funded project at the Summer Street Community Clinic. more...

Project LAUNCH evaluation is well underway. LAUNCH is a federally funded 5-year mental health promotion grant awarded to Maine’s Washington County for families of children aged 0-8. Grant funds support training of existing social service providers, and will embed newly trained staff and infant support specialists in substance abuse treatment, primary care, child care and other community setting where referrals can be made. The project links with many other social service providers in Washington County to maximize resources and has convened a statewide advisory group to coordinate support and sustainability of program outcomes at the state level. Evaluation activities have included development of a logic model, an environmental scan and an evaluation plan. more...

Public Health Performance Standards Assessment

Using the National Performance Health Standards local assessment tool, MCPH works with communities to conduct an assessment of the extent to which the local public health system is able to meet the model standards related to the 10 Essential Public Health Services.  more...

Past Activities

Our charge is to help build public health curricula for medical students and residents, as well as opportunities to participate in public health practice. more...
 

MCPH provides evaluation technical assistance (TA) and consultation to the Bingham program grant recipients for enhancing their program evaluation and building evaluation capacity overall. Additionally, MCPH is available to provide TA, and support for Bingham's evaluation efforts for their anti-violence initiative.  more...
 

MCPH is assisting Maine CDC’s Office of Public Health Informatics and other stakeholders with the implementation of the RWJF Common Ground grant.  Common Ground supports state and local public health collaboration in the analysis and redesign of their business processes in order to develop functional requirements definitions for information systems, with particular attention to public health emergency preparedness processes such as Early Detection and Situational Awareness. more...
 

Diabetes Public Health System Assessment

The purpose of this project is to provide technical assistance and support in the area of evaluation in an effort to increase organizational and staff capacity at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.  MCPH works with program managers to provide ongoing evaluation assistance based on predetermined needs.   more...

Maine Center for Public Health provides technical support, training assistance, literature reviews of best practice and evaluation for the development and implementation of a physical activity/nutrition community program in greater Franklin county. more...

The HMP is a collaborative effort between multiple state programs at the Maine Center for Disease Control, Office of Substance Abuse, and Department of Education and local coalitions.   The local intervention sites are based in eight public health districts covering the entire state.  Each district has at least one Comprehensive Community Health Coalition that addresses public health issues using a community-based approach.  Our role at the Maine Center for Public Health is to coordinate a comprehensive evaluation of the HMP statewide partners and local coalitions.  The specific state programs that are part of the HMP evaluation include the: Partnership For A Tobacco-Free Maine, Physical Activity and Nutrition Program, and Maine Cardiovascular Health Program. more...

This collaborative project focused on strengthening the relationship between state and local public health and health care informatics in Maine by extending the collaboration among them. more...

Integrated Primary Care and Mental Health

The MCPH, in collaboration with the University of Maine at Farmington (UMF), Department of Community Health and Recreation, is evaluating the Lewiston Public School Systems grant provided by the JTG Foundation.  The grant aims to increase physical activity in and outside the classroom, improve physical education, and to enhance learning and reduce behavioral problems in the classroom. Evaluation methods are varied and include: interviews, observations, and surveys thus far.  Dr. Sarah Martin, PhD and UMF student intern Dylan Smith lead the evaluation effort. more...

The Maine-Harvard Prevention Research Center (M-HPRC) was inaugurated in October 2000 at the request of the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention (MCDC) formerly the Maine Bureau of Health (MBOH) and the Maine Center for Public Health (MCPH). 

 Explicitly statewide in scale and scope, the M-HPRC is recognized as one of the most developed collaborations between a state health department and a PRC.  It has also sustained the involvement of the Maine Department of Education and the higher education system.  Its Steering Committee meets quarterly and consists of representation from state government, community, clinical and institutional entities. 

 An important function of the M-HPRC is to provide evidence-based strategies, training & technical assistance, and evaluation support to the Healthy Maine Partnerships (HMPs)  (the school-community coalitions supported by state tobacco settlement funds and OSA), as well as to other communities and organizations.  more...
 

Maine Youth Overweight Collaborative III

This Collaborative, based on the Chronic Care Model and Collaborative Learning, is in the second phase of bringing together patients, clinicians, health care organizations, public health organizations and community organizations to improve outcomes for youth at risk for and already overweight. more...

This is the title of a tool kit developed by the Maine Youth Overweight Collaborative. By providing the tools and resources posted here, the MCPH seeks to provide practical support and guidance to health care practices, organizations and individuals across the state to help improve care and outcomes for overweight youth. more...

MCPH provided evaluation consulting to the Maine in Motion program a statewide year-round walking program. more...
 

Move More Diabetes Project

The Move More Diabetes Project is part of the Kennebec Valley Diabetes Care Initiative aimed at reducing diabetes incidence and mortality. The target population for this project is adults aged 30-70 living in the Kennebec Valley region with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes and who are currently "somewhat physically active," but who do not routinely exercise 150 minutes per week. Lay Health Educators (LHEs) are a vital component of this project and their role involves providing referrals and support to program participants. more...

Move More Telephonic Project

MCPH provides evaluation planning, technical assistance, and support to MaineGeneral's Move More Project, a community collaborative in Kennebec and Somerset Counties. "Telephonic Movers" support community members to build and sustain healthy lifestyles through the Move More supportive or by referral of their primary care physician. MCPH staff are working with MaineGeneral Health staff to evaluate the impact of the reach and effectiveness of the program. more...

National Learning Collaborative Evaluation (NNPHI)

MCPH provides evaluation consultation to the National Network of Public Health Institutes for a Learning Collaborative initiative focusing on public health performance standards. more...

Partner in Chronic Care

Working in partnership with the Hood Center for Children and Families at Dartmouth Medical School and the Maine CDC, MCPH is working to disseminate a family-centered and practice-based  method to improve the care of children with chronic illness.  The model, which has been in existence in New Hampshire for several years, has been proven to improve cost and quality outcomes for such children and has received high marks from families and providers.  We look forward to providing technical assistance to help disseminate the model in Maine. more...

Public Health Electronic Data Access Project

The purpose of the Public Health Electronic Data Access Project was to provide a web interface where the public and private sectors can gain access to data and reports generated by the Maine CDC in one central place. The inventory simplified the way end-users access valuable information about public health issues in Maine. For examle, end-users will be able to access information about data and reports generated by Maine CDC, based on specific public health topics they have selected (e.g., Maternal health) and/or geographic areas (districts, counties, etc.) within Maine. more...

This major initiative at MCPH focuses on coordinating the public health emergency preparedness training and assessment efforts for the state of Maine. more...

Public Health Workgroup (PHWG)

Participation in Group and Committee discussions. more...

Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation "From the First Tooth" (FTFT) Oral Health Program Evaluation

Oral health is a major problem in rural states such as Maine affected by poverty, inadequate or missing insurance, and uneven distribution of dental professionals. From the 2004 Maine Child Health Survey, 15% of kindergarten children screened had untreated dental decay and 11% had never had a dental visit. From the First Tooth’s objective is to significantly increase the number of Maine children who receive preventive oral health care (oral health assessment, fluoride varnish treatments, education of their primary caregiver about good oral health practices) during primary medical care visits between birth and 42 months of age.  From the First Tooth’s approach, which is endorsed by the Maine Dental Association, seeks to integrate early prevention oral health services into medical and social service settings that care for very young children.  During Phase One (two-year pilot: 2008 and 2009), a diverse group of medical providers throughout Maine is being funded to receive training, deliver services, and participate in an evaluation and a learning collaborative with other program participants to identify successes and challenges. Phase One aims to serve up to 3,500 children each year, which will represent approximately 10% of Maine children in the target age group. The Maine Center for Public Health is conducting the evaluation component. more...

Weighing Action

As a result of the June 2004 Hanley Forum, the Maine Center for Public Health convened a group of interested provider organizations and began a dialogue on ways to promote healthy weight across our state. more...